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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
OLD FOGYISM.
From the Quincy Wing.

From the Quincy Whig.
Wichita has more and better street Cal
and cable car accommodations than Chica
go. The street railway scheme proved 6
taking one and it was worked for all there
is in If. Educational institutions also
proved rich mine to the spectators.
There are now eight gigantic colleges and
universities projected or already being built
at Wichita alone That city will have
greater educational advantages than are
provided by Yale and Harvard combined.
The question as to where the students are
to come from to fill these colleges is of
small Importance to the men who are build
ing them. So long as a Spectator or a
company of real estate men can realize
half million dollars profit by giving a
quarter of million to found a university
is good thiug-fOr the founder
There must be an end to all this, however,
and it is probably not far off. The fact is
money has never been SO abundant in this
country as at the present time. Capitalists
are seeking investments everywhere and
seem willing to take desperate chances
where there is a reasonable prospect of
large returns. 1t is this fact that has made
the wonderful western boom possible.
Yes. and that is what they said about
Chicago, and that is what they said about
Minneapolis and st. Paul. and about Kan
sas City, but the doleful prophecies all
failed. This is new era in civilization
and thousand nor hundred years are
necessary in which to settle and develop
country and build city. If Wichita was
as big as ST. Louis today, possessing all
that city's wealth, population and varied
interests, Wichita is surrounded by terri
tory rich and great enough to sustain such
a city with the colleges and universities
thrown in which; the latter, by the way,
are sustaining interests rather than burdens
This is new age but Quincy will never
catch its spirit, nor will any of the hun
dred and one old burgs of the east which
are daily vilifying Wichita.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
COL. STEELE AND WICHITA.

Col J. NJ. Steele is recovering somcwha,
from his sore throat which he says wa,
contracted in talking too much about
Tacoma to the Wichita people and in taking
in the big draughts of dust that blow up
and down through the streets of that won
derfully booming city. Everybody is Oh
the move in Wichita" SAYS the Colonel
Nobody stops to talk very long. A loco
motive with big train comes snorting
into the town. gives screech or two and
starts off again. A horse won't stay long
tied 10 hitching post. He wants to get
away and go somewhere else in the city
Peo,le don't stop to gossip. They have
the boom fever bad. Wichita is the largest
city in the state 1t has about 80, 600 people
aud i. growing every day.-Tacoms Daily
Ledger.
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BETTER THAN BEING GOVERNOR.

Some Of the newspaper men OF Kansas
are wont to accuse the editor of the EAGLl
with an aptnoss for swallowing tafy. We
sometimes are inclined to the thought that
the fellows who offer the criticism only
fail Of showing like avidity for the wan,
of chance. However that may be We are
not inssnsible to such flattery as follows in
.he article quoted below. The author of
the sentiment, Mr.. Furry, the editor Of the
Herald, is under no personal obligations to
the editor of the EAGLE. having no personal
acquaintance with him. Such taffy, if
taffy 1t be, would be swallowed though the
world stood agape at our sincere ackaowl-
edgment:
Think Of writing history of South
western Kansas and leaving out the name
of Col. Al. NJ Murdoch! 1t would be e1-
actly like the old saying, "The play of
Hamlet, with Hamlet left out.
Many of the newspapers Of this and 9th.
er states take some delight in trying to say
something about Marsh Murdoch that will
stop Wichitas boom. They say he is self
ish in wanting to build up Wichita, re-
gardless of the interests of others; that the
EAGLE is made up largely of blow, and
other things which In themselves are not
true. We will not claim that Mr. Muir
dock, through the EAGLE, has not always
advocated the interest of his own town in
preference to all others, but we do claim
that if he had not done so we would have
no good word for him, and he would not
deserve any. We do say. however, that
what some of the slow coaches, who are
opposed to the EAGLE, call blowing. has
been the very thing that has built up
southern Kansas; that Colonel Murdoch
has done more than any other man to
help push the whole state OF Kansas to its
present state of prosperity; more than any
one thousand of the fault-inders who have
been SO persistently grumbling at him.
What we need is a few more Marsh
Murdocks. If Murdoch will become a
candidate for governor of Kansas, we want
to say right now that the Herald is for him
first. last and all the time He would then
not only make the city of Wichita boom,
but would boom the whole state, and
bring new life and energy into every part
of it.
His whole past life has shown that there
is not drop of selfish blood in him, and
he would take just as much pride in seeing
the whole state grow in the future as he
has in seeing Wichita grow in the past.
Then why not elect him governor of
Kansas.-Gueda Springs Herald
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

It begins TO look as if prohibition prohib-
tied toe much for the prohibitionists. The
Atchison Champion. in a long editorial,
grumbles about the determination of many
OF the Kansas druggists not to take out
permits to sell liquor. and insists that il il
their duty TO do so. 4 Law has been enact
ed under which a legitimate dealer must
humiliate himself in order TO obtain the
privilege of selling liquor. and must place
himself in the attitude o. criminal circu-
lstins a petition for psrsion. and must hi
initiate himself every time he sells drop
of liquor, rendering both himself and the
buyer liseie 10 criminal prosecution; and
Yes they say i Is lis duly Ia submit 10 this
-kansas Chief.
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PRATT.


To the Editor Of the Eagle.
During the past week we have had al
abundance of rain. The Minnesota hai
flooded the valley for miles. The farmers
and merchants feel jubilant over the pros
poets for fair crop and good trade. AL
over the country come good reports con
corning the wheat crop. City property hai
taken step onward, the brick building
boom seems to be growing each day.
Wilson & Toms, of St. Louis, have com
menced removing buildings from their LOU
on the corner of Main and Third street,
preparatory to erecting three story brick.
Mr.. Toms was in the city Friday with
plans and specifications of the new build
ing.
Stephenson s. Stewart have moved their
store rooms and will join Porter and the
First National in building two-story
brick with hundred feet fronting. Briggs
& Sons have commenced the foundation OF
their new brick block. Hopper and Elliott
have just completed their basement, and
will push the building to completion as
fast as masons anS carpenters can do the
work. Thei new $4,000 hotel is being
pushed right along as fast as men can be
secured to do the work. The resident posi-
ton of the town is building up very rapid
ly and it is only for the want of hands that
scores of other new buildings are not started.
The poles are all up for the electric light
wires, and the wires are stretched to Third
street. BY the time this letter is read by
the EAGLES many readers, Pratt will be
lit up by electricity. Verify. we boom.
The Rock Island graders are working in
the city, and all along the line in the coun-
ty heavy forces arc at work. 1t is said by
those in authority that the whistle of the
engine of that great trunk line will be
heard in Pratt by the first of July.
The new Catholic church. which is
great help to our city, is completed, and is
now ready to be furnished.
Surveyors are at work between Attica
and Pratt Locating the Border road
Never before was Pratts sky so clear
and her future SO bright. Even those that
have long been her enemies are now COM
ing over and lending their aid to make her
boom. The people all over the county
have come to appreciate the fact that it is
better to have one good town than many
small ones. They also appreciate the fact
that Pratt has the location, the natural adj
vantage, the money, the push the railroads
and is today and ever will be the metropo
lis of the county. This is not only appre-
ciated at home, but men from abroad have
put capital to the amount of $27,975 into |
vacant lots during the past four days.
Carpenters and brick masons are in de-
nand, employment for hundred of each
could be procured, with the highest of
wages. In fact working men of all classes
ire greatly in demand and will continue to
De during the entire summer.
May we ever boom, and the EAGLE in
;rease her so readers to 100, at this place.
1ne is sure, the other probable.
P.B. d.
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WE CAN STAND IT.

If the interstate commerce bill was pass
ed for the purpose of forcing the great
bulk of the exports of the west to Europe
by the way Of the gulf instead of by way
of Chicago and st. Louis to New York
and Baltimore, the law was well drafted.
That will be the direct result. Kansas,
Nebraska, and many other western states
are as near Liverpool as is Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana or Illinois, and nearer. To and
of the Mississippi river and the gulf are the
people of Kansas now looking and talking.
Railroads which propose that direction at
tract the most interest. A year ago it was
not SO
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

There is nothing in the situation in Kan
sas to make woman suffrage attractive to
decent men and women. and there is much
in the conduct and ideas Of Mrs. Cougar, IL
she is to be accepted as type of the
woman politician, TO make men already
sick of the debauchery Of politics. unwill-
ing to invite the upbuilding OF an element
which is openly and de1anuy cishoacrsble,
excusing It all on the score OF party al
vantage Chicago Herald.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

From the way Topeka has of late been
showing such decided preferences for the
Rock Island and Missouri Pacific manage
ments the Santa Fe people are kindly mott
fled that there Is Il prosperous town at the
mouth of the Little Arkansas which would
be convenient for headquarters. and further
they are most cordially invited to come
aud inspect the situation and location.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

1t was noticeable that young men were
everywhere in the majority and it was
quite refreshing to see the exhilerating
effect that young blood had on the growth
Of those western communities quincy
Wing.
New wine never spoils old bottles. but
old bottles are death to new wine. Young
blood only thrivcs in new communities.
Wichita will be great city while Quincy
will simply remain the county seat of
Adams.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

The Arkansas City Republican makes
wrong side of municipal suffrage question.
How fortunate is the Republican III having
such smart editor We wonder Whist he
Interstate commerce bill for the better in
formation Of perplexed people.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

Rev Marsh Murdoch is the worst case
Of agnostic this side of hades. He wont
even let US drive four penny nail into the
coffin of dead whisky without elevating
his nose sneeringly. No wonder his own
brother will bet against him in that posi-.
bic race between him and Mrs Cougar for
the governorship candidacy.-Common-
wealth.
My dear sir, wherefore this continual
hammering away at a mere coffin where
the defunct has been buried and forgotten
wears and years?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

The Wellington Press will accep, the ao-
Acknowledgements Of the editor of the EAeL.
for its flaiterirg representation. Like the
IL Unfortunate hero Of the Mikafie, We won't
see it but the FIRE works ard music will be
on hand all the same
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

Mrs. Dora Salter WAS elected mayor Of
Arsonia, last Monday. She is the first
lady TO be elected 10 that position in the
United States. She is wife and mother
and lady of superior sttsinments.
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1T IS DESTINY.
Those of faith who reason least,
Obtain the fatteSt of the feast.

Marsh Murdoch, of the Wichita EAGLE,
maintains that it is Destiny, and the eight
hundred real estate agents there resort to
subtitle reasoning to make Wichita's pro-
gress plain, but their most substantial ar
guments is that of their leader-'1t is
Destiny"
Wichita spreads and booms with moth
ing more substantial for basis than ''Des-
tiny!'-Quincy Wing.
Destiny is simply as substantial as the
hand of Him who orders it-no more, no
less
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

The Wichita EAGLE appears on our table
this week, and we accord it a hearty vel
come. The EAGLE is one of the best pa
pers in Kansas, containing more original
matter than any other paper in the state.
and is doing grestwork in the way OF
adv ertising kansas,-Bird City News.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

The Chicago News is still keeping up its
filings at Wichita. We only wish the
Chicago News had greater circulation.
Its last deal is sluice of hog wash which
it would seem hardly possible could effect
anyone the leading idea of which is that
Wichita is being run by a syndicate of
Minneapolis capitalists. Minneapolis turned
out to be a good chunk of town and
when Wichita gets to be as big she will be
in position to grow bigger, but as yet no
Minneapolis capitalists have made their
appearance in these precincts.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

The mayoress of northern Kansas
town, who was elected under the new
woman suffrage law last week, came down
to her Office the other day with mother
hubbard on and as she sat cross-legged in
the mayors chair the city clerk noticed
that she had hole in the heel of her stock
ing and that her hustle was to one side.
Hereported the fact to his wife, his wife told
the hired girl, the girl told her fellow, her
fellow told the city marshal, the city mar
shall told the mayoress, whereupon the city
clerk got fired and the town is scandalized.
The mayoress said she would wear her
hustle in front, behind or sideways and it
was nobody's business. 1t is needless to
say that the fair mayoress is red headed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

Congressman Springer of Illinois, tolls
Washington Post reporter that Grover
Cleveland will be renominated-probably
by reclamation.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20

Capital and brains would be offered in
ducements to come and locate in the blessed
land, and boom would ensue that would
cause the Murdocks of the press to eX
claim, How she spreads How she grows"
Quincy Wing.
Yes, and eff and eff" and SO and so,
but a mummy is mummy and must re
main mummy if anything. It's youth,
not old age, which expands and grows; so
if the citizens of Quincy would grow they
must change their location, - come to
Wichita or some other youthful, growing
town. The very man who expressed him
self as above made more money in Wichita
in few weeks than he will make in Quin-
cy in ten years. He has simply gone back
to Old Adams county to rot and be forgot.
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In January last we closed out the entire stock or
paraSOlS and silk sun umbrellas or manufacturer
retiring from business paid spot cash Tor them ana
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BIBLE BRIGADE.

The prophet jeremiah. in predicting the captivity
OF Babylon. uttered the words Flee ye. etc, TO
the inhabitants Of DedRn. der. s9:sl
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The clouds are the dust Of The Lords feeL Ma
hum, !: 81
Jesus rebuked for eating with unwashed
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ceremOniAls Of the Pharsecs Usuke, IL: y, 81
i. Did God deliver the Commandments orally TO
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THE QUESTION SQUAD.
Comrades Queries and Replles--Olds and Ends on
InfnrmafInn-

IComrades answering these Inquiries are re-
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UNE-
Geo. u. Broekett Gustavus o. wishes the adj
dress Of Mrs. III. e. May, who was New York
Stats Agent for relief of wounded and sick soldiers
at hospital No. 1, Nashville Tenn, in June 1864
&C. l.. Thomas Dwight, Kan, wants the address
of Capt. Wm Ellsworth, First Serg't VIM. Cochran,
Newton Moses and John KeaTn, all of Co. E. llth
Ohio.-JOhn A. Watson Meeker Colo. wants
the addresses of Capt. T. j. Condor, Lieut.. Cantey
Sergt's Geoghan. Hugh Hamilton Peter III. Van
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IL Worship only God. (st. Lu., 4:s)
12. Expect angelic aid.
Is. If you overcome a temptation, do not
grow careless. Satan will attack repeatedly.
Ia. Do not become worldly. st Matt, As
ID. Do not tempt others to evh.